viii, 271 pages : 25 cm

Takes a brief look at what life is like for the president and first lady in the White House and features biographies and photographs of all the presidents, first ladies, and vice presidents from 1789 through 2001

Includes bibliographical references and index

Daily Life of the President -- White House Life -- Protecting the President: The Secret Service -- Biographies of the Presidents -- George Washington -- John Adams -- Thomas Jefferson -- James Madison -- James Monroe -- John Quincy Adams -- Andrew Jackson -- Martin Van Buren -- William Henry Harrison -- John Tyler -- James K. Polk -- Zachary Taylor -- Millard Fillmore -- Franklin Pierce -- James Buchanan -- Abraham Lincoln -- Andrew Johnson -- Ulysses S. Grant -- Rutherford B. Hayes -- James A. Garfield -- Chester A. Arthur -- Grover Cleveland -- Benjamin Harrison -- William McKinley -- Theodore Roosevelt -- William Howard Taft -- Woodrow Wilson -- Warren G. Harding -- Calvin Coolidge -- Herbert Hoover -- Franklin D. Roosevelt -- Harry S. Truman -- Dwight D. Eisenhower -- John F. Kennedy -- Lyndon B. Johnson -- Richard Nixon -- Gerald R. Ford -- Jimmy Carter -- Ronald Reagan -- George Bush -- Bill Clinton -- George W. Bush -- Biographies of the First Ladies -- Martha Washington -- Abigail Adams -- Dolley Madison -- Elizabeth Monroe -- Louisa Adams -- Anna Harrison -- Letitia Tyler -- Julia Tyler -- Sarah Polk -- Margaret Taylor -- Abigail Fillmore -- Jane Pierce -- Mary Lincoln -- Eliza Johnson -- Julia Grant -- Lucy Hayes -- Lucretia Garfield -- Frances Cleveland -- Caroline Harrison -- Ida McKinley -- Edith Roosevelt -- Helen Taft -- Ellen Wilson -- Edith Wilson -- Florence Harding -- Grace Coolidge -- Lou Hoover -- Eleanor Roosevelt -- Bess Truman -- Mamie Eisenhower -- Jacqueline Kennedy -- Lady Bird Johnson -- Pat Nixon -- Betty Ford -- Rosalynn Carter -- Nancy Reagan -- Barbara Bush -- Hillary Rodham Clinton -- Laura Bush -- Biographies of the vice Presidents -- John Adams -- Thomas Jefferson -- Aaron Burr -- George Clinton -- Elbridge Gerry -- Daniel D. Tompkins -- John C. Calhoun -- Martin Van Buren -- Richard M. Johnson -- John Tyler -- George M. Dallas -- Millard Fillmore -- William R. King -- John C. Breckinridge -- Hannibal Hamlin -- Andrew Johnson -- Schuyler Colfax -- Henry Wilson -- William A. Wheeler -- Chester A. Arthur -- Thomas A. Hendricks -- Levi P. Morton -- Adlai E. Stevenson -- Garret A. Hobart -- Theodore Roosevelt -- Charles W. Fairbanks -- James S. Sherman -- Thomas R. Marshall -- Calvin Coolidge -- Charles C. Dawes -- Charles Curtis -- John Nance Garner -- Henry A. Wallace -- Harry S. Truman -- Alben W. Barkley -- Richard Nixon -- Lyndon B. Johnson -- Hubert H. Humphrey -- Spiro T. Agnew -- Gerald R. Ford -- Nelson A. Rockefeller -- Walter F. Mondale -- George Bush -- Dan Quayle -- Al Gore -- Richard Cheney

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